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Based on US Census data for Harrisburg
32.8 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$47.8K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$121K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
50.1K
Harrisburg Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
Pennsylvania's 223 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 717 across south-central Pennsylvania. Harrisburg — the state capital — anchors the directory's records here. The city sits along the Susquehanna River roughly halfway between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, organized around the Pennsylvania State Capitol and the surrounding state-government employment, alongside a substantial transportation and logistics base built around the city's central position in the Mid-Atlantic. The 223 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader 717 region's number demand has continued to grow.
In records the directory has compiled for 223 numbers, other Pennsylvania cities — Allentown, Erie, Lancaster, and New Castle — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 223 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across Pennsylvania. The directory currently documents 11 distinct prefixes within 223 in detail, an early-stage subset that should be read as a working slice of the prefix population the code will eventually carry.
Harrisburg's home values come in dramatically below the US median, with median household income running well below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population is modest in absolute terms — Harrisburg itself is small as state capitals go, but the broader 223 footprint covers a substantial geographic stretch of south-central Pennsylvania, including the Lancaster, York, and Lebanon corridors. The 223 footprint shares those demographics with 717 because both codes serve south-central Pennsylvania in overlapping form.

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